NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Postulate 1: The microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms.

Detailed explanation-2: -This third postulate of Koch presumes that each occurrence of an infectious disease has a particular organism that is “the cause” of the disease.

Detailed explanation-3: -Four criteria that were established by Robert Koch to identify the causative agent of a particular disease, these include: the microorganism or other pathogen must be present in all cases of the disease.

Detailed explanation-4: -Koch’s postulates were formulated in the late nineteenth century as guidelines for establishing that microbes cause specific diseases. Because the rules were developed for living agents-particularly bacteria-their applicability to inanimate pathogens such as viruses and infectious proteins has been problematic.